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From: "A.M. Zanker" <A.M.Zanker@ncl.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.0 problem with copying MSDOS files to/from the floppy drive.
Date: 26 Jan 1995 14:00:37 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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Chris Haidinyak (chrish@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote:

>      Does anyone know of a utility to copy MSDOS files to/from a
> FreeBSD 2.0 disk slice? I know that BSDI had the "m" utilities and
> I liked them enough to use them when I used BSDI. Otherwise, can
> someone direct me to a solution to my problems?

The mtools work fine under FreeBSD 2.0R. There's a ready-to-install
compiled version on the ftp site in the packages directory.

Regards,

Mike
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Mike Zanker                              | A.M.Zanker@ncl.ac.uk
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